Hotel of the Week: This Four Seasons Property in Mexico Artfully Blends into the Glorious Untamed Landscape

This quiet defiance against excess manifests in 157 rooms that dissolve into the cliffside. That’s largely due to its unapologetically architectural bent. The built environment rises in sculptural forms—monolithic but never imposing. Think Brutalist DNA softened by Pacific breezes. From a distance, the buildings vanish entirely. Up close, they reveal themselves as a disciplined material study: cement mixed to match beach sand, volcanic stone laid by hand, timber left deliberately unfinished to weather naturally in the salt air.

The resort emerged from an unlikely creative alliance. Architect Victor Legorreta—known for bold geometric experiments and the contemporary evolution of the modernist language practiced by his father, Ricardo Legorreta—partnered with Mauricio Rocha, whose work centers on context, material honesty, and spatial rigor. The two formed a joint studio—LegoRocha—solely for this project, their first collaboration. To address the land, they engaged Mario Schjetnan, perhaps Mexico’s most significant landscape architect for his work preserving native species, working with existing topographies, refusing the manicured aesthetic that marks most luxury properties.

Cliffside suites feature 43-foot infinity pools suspended over the Pacific. Stone bathtubs are carved directly into floors of ocean-blue travertine. Interiors follow suit. Studios Uribe Krayer and Estudio Esterlina avoid the overused lexicon of “Mexican resort” tropes, opting instead for chiaroscuro, provenance, quiet contrast, and material density. Hammocks are woven by Yucatán collectives, waste baskets crafted from henequén fiber in Campeche, ceramics commissioned from Michoacán masters. Nothing is accidental; nothing is anonymous.

This ethos extends beyond the guest rooms. The on-site boutique, Almanaque Natural, operates more like a contemporary craft gallery than a gift shop. Created with Taller Maya, a design collective with two decades of sustainable practice, the store showcases objects that document Mexico’s living craft traditions: Caralarga textiles, Estudio Pomelo ceramics, and exclusive garments from Básicos de México. Each piece supports a lineage of craft and sustainability, many under fair-trade, low-waste, or preservation-first models.

Down the hill, is Rancho Lola, the resort’s 35-acre regenerative farm organized by microclimate with native agaves, heritage corn, and tropical fruits chosen for resilience and flavor. The farm supplies the four restaurants with produce, meat, and eggs while producing the resort’s upcoming house tequila—a full-circle system that connects dining to land. At Coyul, Michelin-starred chef Elena Reygadas uses this hyperlocal harvest not as garnish but as a culinary framework. Even at the poolside taqueria, the masa is nixtamalized on-site using house-grown corn.

Wellness and recreation follow the same logic. The spa draws on Oaxacan healing practices. The 18-hole David Fleming–designed golf course is capped at a low number of players to protect the habitat. And in-house biologists lead nature walks that double as live updates on the resort’s active rewilding efforts, making sustainability a participatory feature.

The resort’s newest expression—Four Seasons Private Residences Tamarindo, launched in January 2025—extends this thesis into real estate. Unlike most branded homes that treat zoning as a challenge to conquer, these 25 residences embrace it. The Las Alturas Clifftop Estates hover over the Pacific without asserting themselves. The 7,200-square-foot Las Arenas Beachfront Villas are nearly invisible behind native dunes. Six custom homesites invite architect-driven designs—but within a framework that resists excess and insists on ecological fidelity. This approach offers homeowners access to a different resort vernacular entirely—one grounded in craft economies, regional pluralism, and an architectural intelligence that knows when to make a statement, and when to step aside.

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